Fireworks tube container



Sept 8, 1936- R. B. wHlTEslDE 2,053,454

' FIREWORKS TUBE CONTAINER Filed March 28, 1936 fV/s Patented Sept. 8, 1936 UNITED smrss BMIENT OFFECE FIREWORKS TUBE CONTAINER Robert Banning Whiteside, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application March 28, 1936, Serial No. 71,430

4 Claims. (Cl. 248-48) This invention is a fireworks piece of the type comprisinga suitablysized and shaped container and a powder tube arranged and rrnly supported therein in a vertical position, with the fuse end of the tube projecting from the upper end of the container.

An obj-ect of the invention is to provideva container, of this class of fireworks, having a simple, inexpensive', practical, substantial and effective means, preferably integral with the body of the container, for permitting the easy assembly of the tube in the container and yet affording both a centering and a firm holding function.

Another object of the invention is to eliminate as many special fastening steps of the elements of the device as is possible.

Further, an object is to provide a container made of a foldable sheet material, such as a suitable grade of cardboard, in which all features or elements are in one piece or blank, in which the several elements are most compactly arranged for economical production of the container.

The invention consists of certain advancements in this art as set forth in the ensuing disclosure and having, with the above, additional objects and advantages as hereinafter developed, and whose construction, combination and details of means, and the manner of operation will be made manifest in the description of the herewith illustrative embodiment; it being understood that modications, variations and adaptations may'be resorted to within the scope, principle and spirit of the invention as it is more directly claimed hereinbelow.

Figure 1 is a top plan of open flaps of the upper end of the container.

Figure 2 is a front face elevation of the assembled reworks piece, including the container and a tube set therein.

Figure 3 is an axial, vertical section of the container from front to rear walls.

Figure 4 is a perspective of a combined base and socket for the lower end of a tube.

The illustrated container, though it may be of any suitable form, is a truncated pyramid Whose front wall 2 has a window opening 3 formed by cutting therein a leaf 4 attached at one side 5 to the wall 2 so that the leaf may be bent inward from its wall, preferably in a horizontal position as shown in Fig. 3.

The leaf 4 has an aperture 6 arranged therein so as to be on the vertical axis of the container C when the leaf is bent to the desired position to receive, center and stay the introduced body of a reworks tube F which is complementary to the leaf hole 6.

The lower end of the tube F is supported on a suitable rest or base part I. In Fig. 3 this rest is shown as comprising a base panel formed inte` grally hinged to the container wall at the fold 8. Thebase 'I is somewhat elevated from the bottom edge of the container and has marginal anges 9 which may be stitched, pasted or otherwise fastened to the near Wall of the container.

Means are provided to firmly clinch the upper portion of the tube F in the top of the container C and to center it therein, and here comprises a flap I!) foldably hinged at II to one wall I2, Fig. l, and having a marginal, fastening tongue I3 along its swinging or outer end. This flap I0 has a centrically located hole I4 complementary to the size of the tube F so as to position the tube on the axis of the container in combination with the centering function of the leaf 4, when the tube is introduced.

A pair of diametrically opposite flaps I5 and I5 are respectively hinged at I l and I8 to opposite walls 2 and I5, Fig. 1, and these flaps are adapted to be folded inward into superimposed position with the inturned, centering flap I0. The flap I5 has a tube receiving and tting hole I5a which is eccentrically arranged therein so that when the flap I5 is folded in over the upper end of the container C the hole I5 will be slightly to the right of the axis of the container. In a like manner the flap I5 is provided with a hole I6a tting the tube F and being so arranged in the ap I 6 that it will take a position slightly to the left of the axis of the container C when the ap is folded inward. As here shown the flaps I5 and I6 are substantially square in plan to match the upper end of the container C and the holes are therefore slightly outwardly olset toward their outer end edges. It is understood that whatever the plan form of the opposite naps I 5-I5 their holes are to be so arranged that they will be eccentric to the axis of the container. Such an arrangement will require that the holes I5a and lla must be brought to the axial line by forcibly shifting theaps I5-I6 slightly to centrally aline the holes with the centric hole I4 of the infolded iiap ID to permit the insertion of the tube F. The inherent resiliency of the cardboard of which the container is made will then act to restore the flaps I5-I6 to their normal position and they will therefore automatically clinch on the interposed tube F; the aps I5 I5 acting in opposite directions of effort on the tube so that this will be rmly gripped between A shelf or base element is shown in Fig. 4 as including a cross piece 'Ia with side flanges ila to 'be suitably secured to adjacent side walls when the element is placed at the desired elevation in the container C. A socket forming device, here inthe shape of a ringv20 of a size to t the lower end of an applied tube F, is arranged in a central position on the base 1, though it may be located in any suitable position thereon according to requirements according to the location of the tube receiving hole in the top of the container; The socket ring may comprise a cup-shaped member Whose bottom Y2l)a is pasted or otherwiseattached'to the upper face of the base 1a. The base andthe socket parts constitute a support and a guide and retainer for the lower end or'` a tube whose upper end is positioned and retained in the Ahole therefor ingthe top lIllof the container.

'What is claimedis: v 1. A support for afireworks piece including a container for a tube and having means to hold the tube uprighttherein; said means including a Y set of, folding, topcorner flaps one of which has a centric tube receiving hole, andthe remaining flaps each havingl anV eccentric hole for the tube; the last mentioned flaps cooperating to Y clinch the tube when it is introduced in the holes of the infolded and superimposed flaps, and a support attached to the container for the lower end of the inserted tube.

2. A support for a fireworks piece including a container for a tube, a plurality of folding aps attached to the upper end of the container and each having a hole to receive an introduced tube when the flaps are in a superimposed position; said aps cooperating to clinch the tube in place.

3. A support vfor a fireworks piece including a container for a tube, upper and lower elements attached to the container for positioning an inserted tube vertically in the container, and a pair of flaps having alinable holes to receive the tube; said flaps coacting to bind on and hold the tube in place.

Y4. A support for a fireworks piece including a container, for a tube, having a top closure with a hole to t and receive an inserted tube, a support for the lowerend Vof the inserted tube, a leaf extending inwardffrom a side Wall portion of the container and having a hole alinable with the aforesaid'hole to receive the tube, and a plu-y rality of superimposed flaps at `the top of the container having al'inable holes to t and receive the tube and which latter flaps coact to grip tfhe inserted tube. Y

'ROBERT BANN ING WHITESIDE'. 

